Sylvia Moody's questions range from 'where did I put my keys?' to 'what is the purpose of Life?', and it is of course this latter type of question which she defines as the Eternal Questions of her title. She adds further questions on God, morals, happiness and death, but she points out that these days people are disinclined to commit themselves to particular belief systems but make use of beliefs from a variety of different traditions.
As her contribution to the debate, she invites us to study the traditions and culture of the Ancient Greeks, especially those of the fifth and fourth centuries BCE. She gives a historical background and then goes on to consider their philosophy and religion, their myths and morals, their politics, including Athenian democracy, their views on death and, what is probably their crowning glory, Greek tragedy as written by the fifth century dramatists Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides.
Obviously in a book of only a hundred pages, Sylvia cannot go into great detail. Indeed she subtitles the book Some Notes from Ancient Greece.
However, for anyone seeking an overview of the Ancient Greek civilisation, this would make a very good starting point, as Sylvia covers a very wide range of topics and gives many examples of Greek thought which makes one want to investigate the topics further.
As an added bonus she ends each chapter with a word in the original Greek and by the end of the book she has explained all the letters of the Greek alphabet, so that one can understand a word like muqologia.
As a footnote, I would mention that Sylvia Moody is a member of the North London group of the Sea of Faith.
John Seargeant hosts the North London SoF group,together with Janet Seargeant.He is a keen student of classical Greek and a theatre aficionado.